Dakotah Popehn Is Publishing a Memoir About What Came Before the Running
You Think This Hurts? arrives June 22, 2027, and reaches back to a stretch of middle school the Olympian spent living with her mother on other people’s sofas, in an abandoned building and in a Walmart parking lot.
Elite Runners
Chicago Marathon Adds Bashir Abdi as Alex Masai Withdraws
Organizers published a revised elite field on Tuesday, 19 days before the Oct. 11 race. Sixteen athletes are in, six are out, and one of the six finished third last year.
Race Coverage
A Mile-by-Mile Guide to the Berlin Marathon Course
The flattest course in the World Marathon Majors climbs a little over 240 feet across the whole 26.2 miles, and almost all of the damage it does is concentrated in three quiet residential miles in the southwest.
Race Coverage
How to Watch the 2026 Berlin Marathon From Anywhere in the World
The race starts at 8:45 a.m. in Berlin on Sunday, which is 2:45 a.m. Eastern and 11:45 p.m. Saturday night in California. RTL has it free to air in Germany, FloTrack has the United States, and the organizers’ own livestream does not begin until the winners are long finished.
Race Coverage
For The First Time In 15 Years, the New York City Marathon Has Changed Its Route
The change falls between miles 20 and 21 and cuts the turns in the borough from seven to five, the first alteration to the five-borough course since 2011.
Jessy Carveth
How to Choose your 5k Race Pace, And When To Surrender to the Bathroom Break
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Everything You Need to Know About the 2026 Berlin Marathon
Sabastian Sawe withdrew injured a month ago, leaving the men’s race open and Tigst Assefa as the headline act on the course where she set the world record in 2023. Here are the start times, the fields, the forecast and how to watch.
Race Coverage
30-Year-Old Trail Runner Dies After a Fall on Norway’s Romsdalseggen Ridge
The Norwegian was second at the Marathon du Mont-Blanc in June and fifth at the OCC last month. She fell near the top of the ridge on Saturday morning, four days after her 30th birthday.
Trail and Ultras
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